NYUNews.com 4 stars The Gutter Twins is Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age). These indie-rock legends have worked together throughout their careers, making “Saturnalia” a natural collaboration. It has its share of grim moments, with its two frontmen trading dour vocals throughout the record. But moments of fragile beauty emerge from the disc’s whiskey-drenched haze. A somewhat religious fervor marks opener “The Stations,” with its references to God and wordless exaltations. But the…

10/10 Sub Pop Records launched many a band, none more obvious than Nirvana. Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan both started out on the label with the critically lauded Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees, respectively. The two old friends find themselves back in the fold with their first full length release together, and it is everything their fans could have hoped for. Lanegan’s deep rumble of a voice launches dramatic opener The Stations almost unaccompanied before stabbing guitars and urgent strings build layers over each other….

Citybeat.com BY Brian Baker Over the past four years, nearly every conversation with former Afghan Whigs/current Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli has invariably included some fleeting reference to The Gutter Twins. The rotating collective with Dulli and former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan at its swirling core has been a project that both have been committed to but only in concentrated bursts of activity dictated by each artist’s demanding schedule. That effort has finally paid off with the release of Saturnalia, The Gutter Twins’ darkly…

San Diego CityBeat 8.0 Goes well with: Afghan Whigs, Screaming Trees, cigarettes, drinking yourself into oblivion Rarely has a band name been more appropriate. Saturnalia is a collaboration between two of modern rock’s most notorious substance abusers—Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees)—that peers into the dark side of human behavior through the eyes of men who’ve done and seen their share of dirt. This album could easily have been a retread of each twin’s past glories, but its elegant composition reveals a…

Harp magazine Three of Saturnalia’s standout tracks: “Idle Hands” (Lanegan/Dulli) With his voice at its prowling Iggy-est, Lanegan purrs through the album’s loudest bristle of cutting guitars and sawing, Middle Eastern-inspired strings—and with “devil’s plaything” lyrics to guide him. It’s not the best track here. But it is the noisiest. And poking beautiful holes into clamor is what Lanegan does best. “Circle The Fringes” (Dulli/Lanegan) Dulli toys with a squeaking orchestra, rat-a-tat rhythms and Beatles-like codas with a sneering vocal tone that makes the whole…

The Last Kings of Grunge – The New York Sun By Brett McCabe What becomes of the beloved artist who achieves critical but never commercial success? It’s a question that feels especially prescient as the fêted artists of the 1990s American underground ease into middle age along with their fans. The front men from three seminal alternative rock bands have new albums out today. The Afghan Whigs’s Greg Dulli and the Screaming Trees’s Mark Lanegan team up for their first full-length collaborative project as the…

ReviewJournal.com They have world-weary voices and their livers are even more well-worn. Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli are two of the most intoxicating — and intoxicated — singers currently haunting the rock ‘n’ roll underground with tattered hearts and 100-proof baritones. They’ve collaborated together before in Dulli’s excellent Twilight Singers outfit, and now the two have paired up for a full album of smoky, after-dark tunes that are both desperate and seductive in the same breath. This is the soundtrack to long nights and even…

Dallas Morning News A – DARK AND DEEP: Rock ‘n’ roll overflows with aspirants to the title of dark poet; by substance-abuse credentials alone, Velvet Revolver’s Scott Weiland qualifies. But Mark Lanegan (the Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age) and Greg Dulli (the Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers) have enough musical experience to deepen sinful shtick into redemptive art. As the Gutter Twins, they make Saturnalia more than a revel in bad behavior. THE VIRTUES OF VICE: Mr. Lanegan’s lowdown wheezing growl and…